Natural Historian Heidi has a plan: scorn her suitor, keep his money, and start her research. It’s perfect - if she can survive long enough in the cursed forest to finish her thesis. Think Elinor Dashwood meets Emily Wilde! 🌿✨📚 #writesky #DVparty

Happy #DVparty day 1, y’all! Here’s a moodboard for my Arab folklore-inspired YA contemporary fantasy featuring: 🗡a stabby ace girl who sees jinn 🏔️a hidden magical realm 💕a tight-knit Lebanese American family 🗝️secrets, banter, and (gasp!) betrayal 💫anxiety/OCD themes #YA #F

🥀🖤6 months until VILE LADY VILLAINS comes out in the UK (just over 7 months in the US) 🖤🥀 To celebrate this exciting but also nerve wracking milestone, I’m sharing some sneak peeks from the first pages of the book. Want more? Give me a page number and I will give you a line

At long last, here is my take on Interview with the Vampire, queer time, and the existential horrors of asexual yearning. It also happens to be my 50th blog post (though it’s become a full-length essay)! 🩸🍷💀 🖤 🧛‍♀️ worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/i...

AND THEY TAKE PLATONIC, ARO, AND ACE STORIES BTW 💖

paging educators currently jamming genAI into everything:

It’s not even that writing is supposed to be hard work. It can be, but it isn’t always, and rejecting gen-AI isn’t about gatekeeping, or the idea that your writing only has value if you put some objective amount of blood, sweat, and tears into it.

we all have that one friend that's too obsessed with skin care - "it's bad for my complexion," she says, never going out while the sun is up, always asking to enter buildings, and ever since you've known her she wears fake fangs all the time -

BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN KING #UnhingedPit #A #Q #F #R #R

I'm a sucker for a good mood board, especially with silly ghosts Open call submissions for our Paranormal Aspec anthology are open! paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co #writingcommunity 🌈📚🪐

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE X LOST SOULS MC: Hell if I was a vampire, I would be safe from danger and everything would be roses MC, after becoming a vampire: ... wait #UnhingedPit #amquerying #H #LGBT

Our book of the week is NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social. We're a sucker for anything by Haynes and this retelling of Medea is no exception. Have you read it yet? 🤍

“Agamemnon dies several times” I’m already excited but this has me seated on my front lawn. The mail delivery driver tells me the book won’t be out for several months in the U.S. I do not care, this is perfection.

How it started and how it changed #unhingedpit #R #Q

Pirates of the Caribbean but if Elizabeth was a bisexual mage, Will was a lesbian monster/pirate, James Norrington was an age-appropriate hottie that didn’t suck, and we spread the Jack shenanigans around. Then add more angst and a cult #unhingedpit #a #f #fr

Because this book is a recipe for disaster, here's one cursed recipe that, once eaten, will leave you wanting more. #UnhingedPit #NA #F #R #AG

The '90s human girl x werewolf boyfriend are all grown up and living in married bliss. But once bodies of locals start appearing every full moon, our headstrong fmc has a choice: solve the killings or admit true love shouldn't require this much bleach. #A #T #Q #UnhingedPit

Thrilled to share this cover mockup for my ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN WIP—if it were a trendy booktok rom-com instead of a cosmic horromance 💅🏻 #UnhingedPit #SF #H #R #LGBT #WIP

...see what happens next in THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH, a gothic horror romantic tragedy complete at 71,000 words. #UnhingedPit #Q #H #R #A #Historical #Gothic

What could go wrong? THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH is a gothic horror about the black sheep of a powerful 14th century Irish family and his doomed love story with the banshee who's haunted his household for generations. #UnhingedPit #Q #H #R #A #Historical #Gothic

Introducing my MC Rea through incorrect quotes: (A historical fantasy set in WW2 Italy) #UnhingedPit #YA #H #W

Former supernatural-obsessed teen, Brandy, hardly minds that her husband is a werewolf...until bodies start showing up dead on their property on full moons. Has her partner lost control? And should true love really require this much bleach? #A #T #Q #UnhingedPit

#UnhingedPit Cavern Clipper (TREASURE PLANET X JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH) #A #SF #F #AA (Action Adventure, courtesy of readers opinions) #WIP

Man, last week Tok was going for a jog in the woods. Now people expect him to fight in a war and lead people?! He's not even qualified to be a barista! I do not know that the True Mother is thinking!! 'A Sword in the Snow' #UnhingedPit #A #F #Q

Confidently, I can say none of these lot are getting raptured today. "They're a 10 but..." SNOWDROPS & STONES Edition Featuring: 🥀Star-Crossed Lovers 🥀Messy Families 🥀Lovers to Enemies 🥀Class Divide 🥀Monsters & Horror Vibes 🥀Dystopian Fantasy #UnhingedPit #NA #F #R #AG

If asexuality is left out of our conceptions of queerness and sexuality, the picture is dangerously incomplete.

You guys know what’s next: rules reminder. #UnhingedPit is open to EVERYONE in the #writingcommunity, designed for creators to let loose and express their work however the hell they want. Questions? We’re here to answer.

Alright everyone, it's official. The NEXT #UnhingedPit event will be tomorrow, Sept. 23rd, from 8am-8pm in your time zone. Let the scramble to pull together an unhinged pitch begin. See you tomorrow!! #WritingCommunity

The reason why AI loves emdashes is that they stole from every writer ever to create its database. And we love us some gotdamn emdashes. It's also why it doesn't know where to actually put a comma.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

How can we look at the Jimmy Kimmel firing and not remember the "red scare" aka "Hollywood Blacklist" of the 1950's. I ask ABC, "Have you no shame?".

re-reading six of crows and man these books have the JUICE. they gave unto the children the same thing kpop demon hunters did, which is very simple and weirdly rare: characters that are hot and cool

Recognizing and resisting the crushing norms around sex don’t just liberate asexual people. They liberate everyone. Spotting and rejecting the restrictive norms around romance don’t just liberate aromantic people. They liberate everyone.

“I’m not the one who gets confused between costumes and truth.” - Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil Civility is a costume many wear to speak evil things to life.

It’s here! “It” as in yes, I had to pre-order @nataliehaynes.bsky.social ‘s No Friend to This House and ship it overseas because I need her take on Medea and the independent bookshop version is gorgeous. (Many thanks to Mr.B’s Emporium of reading delights in Bath for sending it over so quickly!)

The 2 things I remember most from that day: 1) spotting the 2nd plane in the background and thinking "what is that", then the dawning horror of seeing it hit the tower; 2) watching people jump from the upper floors to their deaths. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

A work friend, Rachael Barrans, recently lost her dog in Nashville. If anyone in the area has any info on him, please reach out to her! #findwaffles www.instagram.com/p/DOWX6ntj2g...

hey if you're in Virginia it looks like Walgreens is letting us schedule covid vaccinations without a prescription!

The morning’s bright the sky is blue and we have a teaser trailer! WAKE UP DEAD MAN the new Benoit Blanc mystery, in theaters Thanksgiving and on Netflix 12/12

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

“You can’t ‘relax’ yourself into sexual attraction […] Sugar’s framing of the ‘issue’ that Junior is experiencing is reminiscent of what a lot of ace people encounter when coming out – that they ‘haven’t tried hard enough’ or ‘haven’t met the right person yet.’” This essay is so well articulated.

The dismissal of the South makes me so angry. The South is very Black and very queer. While you think you’re sticking it to the cast of Hee Haw when you talk smack about the South, you’re really showing you don’t know shit about the people you project you care about.

"If your art was worthless, they wouldn't be asking for it."

For legal reasons this is a joke… but it’s TRUE you can preorder VILE LADY VILLAINS with 25% off at Barnes & Noble today only! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/vile-lady-...

It’s true 🐑 observer.co.uk/culture/book...

If you want to help this sapphic book sell, you can preorder it until tomorrow from Barnes & Noble for 25% off (just use code PREORDER25 at checkout) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/vile-lady-...

Are you ready to jump into the depths? 🌊 SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN FOR ISSUE 04: CURRENTS 🩵 www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit (We never charge a fee and pay accepted contributors.)

“Sapphic books don’t sell,” I keep hearing lately. “Bet!” I say. But I need your help to prove them wrong. So please, preorder VILE LADY VILLAINS if you can. And if you can’t, please share this post and yell about all the sapphic books you’re excited about. Here’s some of mine:

lorge bones welcome

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive